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Nash Library will close at 5pm on Friday, August 1, 2008 and will reopen on Sunday, August 24 at 4pm.

Nash Library now subscribes to Cambridge Collections Online (CCO) which includes access to Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics and Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture.

Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers over 1500 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author Companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analyzed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed. The genre and topical Companions cover periods of English literature such as Old English or the Victorian Novel, and literary genres such as Modernism or Greek Tragedy, providing vital contextual information about political, social, religious and artistic relationships. The Companions to Classical Civilisation examine key periods and aspects of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome.

The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism. This online collection contains over 1000 essays taken from the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (more than 100 volumes).

Nash Library recently upgraded its Business Source Elite subscription to a Business Source Complete subscription. This upgrade allows access to the following content:

635 full-text books

277 full-text case studies

17,651 full-text company profiles

1,451 full-text country economic reports

17,558 full-text industry reports

18,000 full-text interviews (executive & analyst)

2,297 full-text market research reports

1,558 full-text peer reviewed journals

2,842 full-text SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analyses

1,525 full-text trade journals and general business magazines

14 full-text working papers collections

25,000 author profiles

Title lists for the above content are available at http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=399.

This upgrade also includes access to Regional Business News which provides full text for more than 50 regional business publications, including the Journal Record and the Journal Record Legislative Report. Titles lists for Regional Business News are available at http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=130.

This database is accessible from any computer as long as you have a USAO faculty, staff, or student e-mail account.

Nash Library will join the rest of USAO by closing on Fridays through July 19, 2008. The Library will be open the weekend before final examinations. Additionally, the Library will continue to be open on Sundays from 2pm to 8pm through August 1, 2008.

Nash Library now has a subscription to the New Scientist Online Archive through EBSCOhost. This subscription provides full-text of the "New Scientist" back to 1997, includes high quality PDF files, and is not affected by an embargo. As usual, you will be able to access this title from both the library's online catalog and the New Scientist Online Archive link. If you are unfamiliar with this periodical, below is a blurb from their website. If you're forever asking questions of the world around you, you'll love New Scientist. Every issue of New Scientist brings you:

• News - the latest news, across every field of science, from around the world
• Features -in-depth analysis and investigations of key scientific issues from our expert team of writers
• Technology - the latest trends, emerging technologies and devices that could change the way we live and work
• Commentary - thought-provoking information and opinions from world-renowned figures.
• Interviews - fascinating insights into the minds and lives of leading & up-and-coming figures in science and technology
• The Last Word - discover if you know the answers to other readers' random and often bizarre science questions - or send one in yourself
• Jobs - the very latest science and technology vacancies